Gary Leon Ridgway, better known to the general public as The Green River Killer, was a prolific serial killer whose chosen hunting grounds were Washington State during the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. Ridgway’s victims of choice were prostitutes and underage runaways, which he strangled and whose bodies he dumped in wooded areas along the Green River, inciting the pseudonym the Green River Killer. Reportedly, he often returned to the dumbed bodies to have sexual intercourse with them (Wikipedia, Gary Ridgeway). He was convicted of 49 murders in December of 2001 after DNA evidence verified his involvement. Ridgeway was sentenced to life in prison instead of given the death penalty in a plea bargain in exchange for the names and locations of